《One Maverick Pig (Special Edition)》 in addition to cultural essays, also contains preface and postscripts to other books. These prefaces and postscripts also reveal the other authors' attitude. In addition, it also contains some light essays. It can only be concluded from the author's writing that: In China, the spread of liberal ideas still has a long way to go.
Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory. He met Li Yinhe in 1977, who was working as an editor for "Guangming Daily", and she later became his wife. He was accepted by Renmin University of China in 1978 where he studied economics and trade and got his Bachelor's Degree. He received his Master's Degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. After he returned to China, he began to teach at Peking University and Renmin University of China. He quit his job as a college lecturer in 1992, and became a freelance writer. On April 11, 1997 he died suddenly of heart disease at his apartment.
本想给四星的,但是这本书对我影响太大了,未必是好影响,但至少它让我这头彻底的“特立独行的猪”记住了它。读的时候全身的血液逆流到我的头上,脸涨得通红发热,It reminds me of my senior high school which was a dark peroid, both objectively and subjectively, a person like me was produced. It was so miserable whenever I think of my senior high school. It was a complete failure. Everything was fake.. 写作文我把全部焦点和中心都放在了死套的结构上,化学物理的学习完全抛弃了真正的内容,而是坐在书桌前,脑子里在想着乱七八糟的事情,面对着课本却全然不知道它讲的什么东西,因为心压根不在上面,唯一学的好的一门学科就是英语,看来语言真的可以通过多多练习说、读就能学会的东西,但是作为理科生,除了数学跟理综,其他都还差不多,怎么可能有好的成绩。高中给我的打击太大,现在10年快过去了,它的阴影不敢说已经没有了。大学是活在高中时神经衰弱的阴影里,后来去了印度,用了一种meditation的东西,自认为把神经衰弱、强迫症治好了,回国后发现那个阴影还在,看来只要在国内我的病就复发。为什么这本书会让我想到高中,大概因为里面又提到了孔孟之道,有提到了乌托邦这些当年我一直关注的词罢,每天接受太多的东西,但实际生活中一样也用不上,很认同里面作者说的乡村文化里关于为什么村里人宁可话费很大的开支去办丧喜事宜,却不曾花点钱去改善一下生活,这个也是我跟我爸一直想不通的一点,至现在也不明白为什么,很多东西根本想不通的情况下,不定就在哪次外滩踩踏事件中被踩死了,为什么不轻轻松松的live。什么孔孟之道,在我看来他们就是连大便都要考虑下和不合时宜。 男女授受不亲,所以嫂子掉进水里,在考虑是否救起的时候,亲嫂子被大浪卷走了,stupid至极。这就是当下被传授的“知识”,让我痛苦不堪。很简单的事情为什么要把它考虑复杂,太多的知识学了根本用不上,在我看来渴了喝水,有钱了让自己舒适,姐夫掉水里立即去救他,哪来那么的“考虑”。就是这些东西把我搞得我神经衰弱了,没法思考,丢掉了自己。换个国家,没了这些繁琐的愚道我会活得很好,很快乐。 后记:就是因为高中那段黑暗的日子,我稀里糊涂选择了计算机专业,中间在没有考虑转专业的情况下,稀里糊涂比自己去学习,根本对这些10100提不起兴趣,却还在用各种办法让自己以为他很好玩,直到现在选择了一份不擅长更不喜欢的开发的工作,我彻头彻尾的不喜欢现在的状态,想彻头彻尾的改变现在的状态,但目前我彻头彻尾的不知道如何去做,只是任凭时间一分分溜走,得过且过,麻木不仁。相信传授的东西是有用的,目前我还没发现而已,但是我不想再去探讨它到底有什么用了,活着的时间太短暂了。 太着急不好吗,嫉妒不好吗,真的不能那样子吗...不喜欢现在的自己。
....................................below from book to save 二三十年代,有头脑的美国人,如海明威等,全在欧洲 待着。后来希特勒把知识分子又都撵回到美国去,所以美国才有了科学发达、 人文荟萃的时代。假如希特勒不在欧洲烧书、杀犹太人,我敢说现在美国和欧 洲相比,依然是个土得掉渣的国家。我不敢说国内人才凋零是书刊检查之故, 但是美国如果现在出了希特勒,我们国内的人才一定会多起来。